Another plague of locusts

Joel 2:7-8English Standard Version (ESV)

7 Like warriors they charge;
    like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
    they do not swerve from their paths.
8 They do not jostle one another;
    each marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
    and are not halted.

"The day after this which was the third day since they came, the grasshoppers began to walk toward the west.  Every one was walking in the same direction like an army.  They did not stop nor go around anything but went straight on over or through whatever they came to.  They came to the east side of the house walked up it, over the roof and down the other side.  There was an open window up stairs on the east side and those that came to the window walked on in.  There were hundreds of them in the room when Ma thought of it and ran to shut the window.  Pa tried with a stick to turn some of them, but they wouldn't go a step in any direction except west.

When they came to the creek, they walked out on the water and drowned.  Others came up and walked out on the drowned ones, until they drowned too, when others walked out over them until finally the creek was choked with drowned grasshoppers and others walked safely across on the bodies."

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2014), 81.